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I wonder why Raymond Chen suggest a WSH solution. Isn't PowerShell the official scripting language for Windows nowadays?

• mike_hearn 3y ago
  PowerShell has weird restrictions where it'll refuse to run scripts unless they're signed and stuff.
  • rk06 3y ago
    If the sysadmin chooses to, otherwise PowerShell can be run arbitrarily
    • pie_flavor 3y ago
      The key is that unsigned scripts are opt-in, not opt-out. Chen is not going to suggest a solution that requires all users of the software to configure their computer to be less secure.
      • ChrisSD 3y ago
        It's not really a security measure in that sense. It's a "safety feature" that prevents accidentally running such a script. Anything can trivially disable the protection using a bat script (or anything else) to bootstrap. E.g. `powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted`